Scammers skirt spam shields with help from Adobe Flash Online scammers have found a new way to skirt anti-spam filters, this time by making use of Adobe Flash files hosted on free websites. Spam messages with innocuous-looking content contain links to Flash-based files on ImageShack.com and elsewhere, according to a report from anti-spam service MessageLabs. Then commands embedded …
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... If medsplacesuch.com is the same site I use to get spam from. A friend used to live a few blocks away from the address listed on the web site [that area has mosely apartments and small shopping centers]. Obviously the site included fake seals from Verisign [link pointed locally instead on Verisnign's web site], Ontario ministry [scanned and modified PDF], Better Business Bureau [link pointed locally instead on Verisnign's web site], etc.
Isn't it their job to block junk e-mail like this? Haven't they proclaimed the death of their own company before, claiming in 2001 that e-mail would become unusable by 2007 / 2008?
Jesse has it right. This is a "duh" moment for an outfit that claims to block this garbage.
If its such a big problem for those that are getting spam with links in the email pulling in content from other sites, then keyword block them. Its not that all sites have bad content, but if your constantly receiving image content from another site not related to the email and the link to the spammers website, then block it You'd be amazed by how much junk gets tossed into the bit bucket by that filter technique, at the very least, quarantine it to figure out a pattern and if your users, REALLY want it.
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Example -> some.twat@no.where
...will be very unlucky to get any spam. The dot separator in the local part seems to screw 'em right up. Been my experience with umpteen accounts over some years. I have a good idea why that is.
Keep it to yerself, now.
Paris, cuz that might actually be one of her old email addies...
I have a name-dot-name e-mail address and it still gets plenty of pharma-spam and faux-chronometer-spam. I think the solution is simple:
1) There are a finite number of spammers in the world
2) Declare them UNPROTECTED by any international laws
3) Assassinate them one by one until that finite number is reduced to zero
4) Hopefully, those who would become new spammers would get the message!
5) Eventually, the world enjoys a spam-free Internet.
Simple and elegant! A good place to start would be the ROKSO. ^_^
-A
Overly complex solution that.
Far simpler would be to hand the ROKSO list to one of the black agencies specialising in wet-work (you know, the ones that don't exist and certainly wouldn't be financed by any western governments if they did) and tell 'em to do something useful with our tax dollars / pounds / euro-washers for once in their lives.
A few nasty "accidents" to some of the more high-profile types in the spamming community would get the message across.
I've seen better from Spammers. Is a link to a SWF which runs a getURL all they can come up with? You still need to click that link though- and you must be a total n00b to do that.
BTW (this so going to sound like spam in itself and yes I know the name is a bit cheesy) I run all my mail through www.junkemailfilter.com before it even hits my mailserver. I get no spam (just like Dvorak). Sounds too good to be true I know. But seriously, give it a try.
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